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Japan, in the month of April witnessed a huge number of tourist arrivals with as many as 7.86 million hotel and inn stays due to the Easter holidays and the cherry blossom season.
According to the Japan Tourism Agency, this figure represents a rise of about 16% from a year ago and has been the highest for any month ever since the government started compiling the comparable data in the year 2010.
However, the survey did not include the people who used private lodging facilities or cruise vessels instead of hotels.
The government of Japan has been attempting to promote the regional tourism sector of the country quite aggressively and has also been trying to plug its hotel shortage prior to Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. The Japan Tourism Organization had earlier disclosed that Japan had attracted record 2.58 million tourists in April which represented a rise of nearly 23.9% on year.
Tokyo attracted the highest number of stays in April with 2.09 million followed by Osaka with 1.19 million and Kyoto with 689,600. Chinese tourists accounted for the highest number of tourists and were followed by South Koreans and Taiwanese tourists.
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